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I can see why the AG did not want to testify before the staff counsel’s of the committee. 30 minutes is harder to out-talk than 5 minutes per Comgressmember. Then again, the committee counsel’s sometimes ask the toughest questions, like the Watergate tapes.

One side effect of the upcoming discontinuance of Amtrak’s Hoosier State service, fears of job cuts at Amtrak’s shop in Beech Grove. It runs between Indianapolis and Chicago, and under a 2008 law, Amrak can’t fund it. Personally, the Hoosier State should have been replaced by a Daily Cardinal, and the issue of how to get coaches and locomotives to Beech Grove for repair would be moot. Barring that, Indiana should have negotiated for something better.

Did some checking, both mayors are Democrats (As an excluded city in the Indianapolis/Marion County unified government, Beech Grove has some autonomy, with it’s own mayor qnd council, as well as the ability to vote for Mayor of Indianapolis and the city-county council), but their State rep is a Republican. Also, on some advocacy pages on Facebook,that supposedly the Beech Grove mayor may not have liked the shop in the past, plus the current Amtrak CEO came from Delta Airlines, probably not used to facilities like Beech Grove, Willmington, and Bear.

In this video, an interesting side note. The Wisconsin Talgos survived Walker. At roughly 0:57 into the video, the locomotive being shunted around the shop, the two trainsets are on the track behind them. With the push from Minnesota for a second Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago service, and the new Governor in Wisconsin, They may end up being used after all.

There’s a lot of speculation right now about whether the allegedly “strong” economy is enough to reelect Trump, who seems to think he can get away with anything if he puts a few dollars in the suckers’ pockets. But, as the ouster of conservative cult leaders like Brownback and Walker illustrates, voters know a con job when they see one. They’ll put up with a certain amount of b.s. in return for results, but that has limits. It’s too late to turn back the clock on racial integration; too many people live in mixed-race neighborhoods now, have neighbors of different colors and cultures, and have learned from living next door to them that they’re perfectly okay. And cozying up to the likes of Putin and Kim Jong Un doesn’t sell well even in red precincts; there are still plenty of Korean and Vietnam veterans around, and families who lost relatives fighting the “Evil Empire” in those wars. To them, Trump must look like a madman, or at least like an infantry colonel about to give a hill back to the enemy their buddies just shed blood for — it’s inexplicable, senseless, they can’t make head or tails of it. When you drill down into it, 2020 won’t be about the economy, no matter how good it may seem on the surface (the fact it’s not that great underneath also is a problem for the GOP); 2020 will boil down to “what the hell is going on?” and “what is happening to America?” and people will pull the lever to go back to the way things were, not in 1875 or 1975, but in 2015. The silent majority will think, “make Trump go away, and things won’t be perfect, but will be all right.”

“Welcome back to Fox Nation. A White Senator ate fried chicken. Fried chicken is racist. To talk about it we searched our Rolodex for experts on fried chicken and Kool Aid. We have two black friends here on the nation, see! Joining us now, Diamond and Silk. Ladies, you’re black so you know your fried chicken. Thanks for joining us.”

“Facebook barred seven users from its services earlier this week, citing its policies against ‘dangerous individuals and organizations.’ Now President Donald Trump is siding with the people who were banned and railing against social media ‘censorship’ — all while using one of his favorite social sites.”

The people he’s defending including Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos — purveyors of falsehoods and conspiracy theories, inciters of nutjobs with AR-15s, people who attack families of school shooting victims.

“The Asians wearing MAGA hats were not just tourists,” Wendy Wright, president of Christian Freedom International, told PJ Media. “They are North Korean defectors and South Koreans who get rice, medicine, and Bibles into North Korea and North Korean defectors out.”

In a really bizarre example of the brain-dead insanity of liberalism, white liberals of code pink have seized the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C., and they are screaming at real, honest Venezuelans, that they don’t have a right to fight against the totalitarian dictatorship!!

@13 A little thing like an unbroken string of past failures won’t stop Republicans from spending the lives of other people’s children on another ill-advised military adventure. Useless waste of life doesn’t matter when mostly black and brown kids are dying for their cause.

@16 Ted Bundy did volunteer work (for the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission!), worked at a suicide prevention hotline (where crime writer Anne Rule met him), was a paid GOP staffer, a GOP national convention delegate, and a campaign volunteer for several GOP candidates. All while kidnapping and killing women. And Denis Rader, the BTK killer, was a church deacon and Republican. Goes to show you never know what might be going through the mind of the person sitting next to you at a GOP meeting or in church.

3, Very True, and too bad for extreme gerrymandering, could have voted out the legislators that went with the FoxCon deal. Too bad Michigan is too far from Chicago, even with Republican control of the Legislature and regardless of governors, Michigan has funded Amtrak service for decades, the Wolverine Corridor, Pere Marquette, and Blue Water, and bought the line from Kalamazoo to the Detroit area. Amtrak ended up with Beech Grove Shops when it purchased them from Penn Central/USRA in 1975.The USRA had a lot of surplus assets of PC and 6 other railroads to dispose of as they were forming Conrail. That and it’s location, Amtrak couldn’t pass it up.

Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant. I would like to find out whether that is in fact true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it’s being represented.” – Attorney General Obstruction McPerjury

Huh? I thought the reason for doing rage-Tweet’s bidding and launching a new investigation into the FBI was because the investigation that uncovered all the Russian spies and election fraud was “pre-texted”, “based on lies from FAKE news”, and went too far? Now he says it didn’t go far enough?

Well, at least they are finally admitting that Steele was not the basis for the investigation. It only took them two fucking years of bullshit and lying to get around to it. But the GOP obstruction machine has finally figured out that hiring an unstable alcoholic like Papa to go to London and reach out to the Russian spies was the mistake that broke open their deal to sell the Presidency.

Admitting to that though, is pretty much admitting to the whole thing. So that is where we are at now in the obstruction saga. The AG is admitting that it looks like the campaign sent a guy to London to sell the office in exchange for campaign assistance. And he wants to use that as justification for further obstruction.

Twitter reportedly won’t use an algorithm to crack down on white supremacists because some GOP politicians could end up getting barred toohttps://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-algorithm-crackdown-white-supremacy-gop-politicians-report-2019-4 “”Most people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into dangerous territory, where we’re talking about Steve King or maybe even some of Trump’s tweets,” the extremism expert Amarnath Amarasingam told Motherboard.”

There’s an alt-right, Am-Ren, white supremacist serving 16 in VA for burning AME churches. He should sue for a retrial because the prez’s fixer says that one can unilaterally dismiss investigations they believe are based on false allegations.

An NBC poll shows that 37% of adults, and 75% of Republicans, believe Trump has been “honest & truthful when it comes to the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.”

29, overwhelmed with butt hurt because Mittens has to give it away. And W can’t even do that.

While Mr. and Mrs. Two-Term, Popularly Elected President Black Dude are still fighting off production deals from the majors while kite-surfing with Branson.

Back in ’06 it was the easiest fucking thing in the world for these people to set the alarm, get up early in the AM and sneak out to the garage to scrape that W sticker off the rear window of the Dodge Ram. Trump is just such another level of Alien-Baby crazy that they just can’t do it anymore. Poor bastards are stuck on stupid forever.

30, Totally broken system. That HR would back her up, protect her from investigation by containing the complaint between the employee, the employee’s supervisor, and her boss is going to hurt them badly at trial. No effort to understand or investigate. Just to contain. Classic case study. That the employee can document and provide witnesses to her declarations of ethnic and religious animus nails it for the plaintiff. $$$$

And now the company is stuck with Mrs. Intolerant Racist. Without bothering to figure out what was going on, they scared themselves into a defensive position from which retreat is deemed to costly.

When a rogue bank steals from its customers, it pays a fine and moves on. When a bank that can’t do anything right falsely accuses an innocent customer of check forgery, it pays a civil judgment and moves on.

(Full disclosure: Roger Rabbit owns Wells Fargo stock and would incur a financial loss if this bank’s existence was terminated. Screw that. Protecting honest churches and pastors from incompetent banks is more important than whether I get a piece of the dirty action.)

@29 “The only bigger shill than Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit is the husband-wife power couple who won’t fade away, either.”

I’m curious why you’re leaving yourself out. Self-adulation, perhaps?

Anyway, I’m not a shill, I’m a news aggregator and commenter. I only quote and remark on what I find in the news. I’m not responsible for the content. If Barr lies to Congress, that’s his doing, not mine.

The difference between us, Doc, is that you’re full of shit and I’m not.

@32 His employment contract contained an arbitration clause, so no trial. The employer will pick a friendly arbitrator and he’ll get a token settlement.

These arbitration “agreements” in employment contracts need to be outlawed. There’s nothing voluntary about them; you either sign it or don’t get the job. Years ago, courts banned similar clauses from commercial contracts and product warranties. They should do the same with these arbitrary, unfair, and coercive clauses in the employment sphere if legislatures won’t ban them.

36, Not in New York State. Since 2018 NY invalidates mandatory arbitration clauses in employment disputes involving claims of discrimination. Also removed NDAs unless requested by the employee. So they may have to go throgh the motions. But once arbitration is complete they are free to re-file. UHC must then challenge under the Federal Arbitration Act. This might not be a good case for that. Which thus creates incentive for UHC to bargain in good faith through arbitration. And opens the door for the plaintiff to use the record of arbitration against UHC.

Should be the same in every state. Generally is in enlightened, healthy, well educated, economically stable, progressive states run by Democrats. Unfortunately trailerbilly voters in filthy, opiate riddled, red state failures are so thoroughly blinded by hate for the invisible “others” they just can’t seem to stop hitting themselves in the face and setting their own dicks on fire.

But a degenerate bankrupted reality television celebrity with a documented history of lying about sexual assaults got on the phone with a vicious murdering dictator and agreed that it was all a DERP STATE HOAX using a TIME MASHEEN.

And the entire GOP mulls it over and decides to go with the degenerate reality television celebrity and the vicious dictator. Because this really is “the status quo” of the GOP now.

@40 The homeless camp is irrelevant. The rape occurred in a car dealership after the suspect left the camp.

The camp conducted an ID check and limited background check when he arrived there, but not a thorough criminal history check that would have revealed he had a conviction record in another state (Texas). Suppose they had, and had turned him away, how would that have prevented the rape?

It wouldn’t have. He would’ve been on the streets, he would’ve gone to the car dealership, he would’ve attacked the victim anyway. Don’t blame the homeless camp for failing to prevent this crime; they couldn’t have prevented it.

As for the victim, the suspect was caught, has been charged, and if he’s convicted he’s likely going to be locked up for a long time, especially given his prior record. What more do <i<you want from this? Other than leaving out these details in order to score cheap talking points in your anti-homeless rant.

If people are homeless, they’re going to be somewhere. They don’t just evaporate. Do you want them in some sort of supervised setting or just wandering the streets? Don’t knock the efforts of those trying to provide safe and supervised places for these people. However much these camps may fall short of some sort of ideal, they’re better than nothing.

Your comment here is not constructive. It contributes nothing toward solving the homeless problem that afflicts Seattle and virtually all other cities, large and small. You’re just mouthing off your personal prejudices against homeless people in general, and we don’t need that, so go away.

The far right doesn’t have an honorable agenda, and the people who speak for it aren’t honorable. The realm of far right propaganda is populated by scumbags like Alex Jones, James O’Keefe, Milo Yiannapoulos, Jacob Wohl, and their flunkies and imitators.

I hope the student they dragged into their scheme, evidently without his consent, sues the shit out of them. He’s now famous and will look like a sleaze to any employer running an internet check on him.

But my larger point is this is what Republicans and conservatives are now. They’re mainstreaming this formerly fringe gutter behavior. Republicans don’t have a coherent political party or platform anymore; they’re becoming a mob whose platform is “I hate you.” That’s not how you get normal people to vote for you, dumbfucks.

And Doctor Dumbfuck goes along with it and defends this unruly mob because he’s a dumbfuck, too.

Interesting deet in the N.C. gerrymander case (WaPo) from the decision.

In particular, the court found that North Carolina lawmakers requested data on racial differences in voting behaviors in the state. “This data showed that African Americans disproportionately lacked the most common kind of photo ID, those issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV),” the judges wrote.

So the legislators made it so that the only acceptable forms of voter identification were the ones disproportionately used by white people. “With race data in hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans,” the judges wrote. “The bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess.”

I’m less alarmed that a megalomaniac with narcissism and a persecution complex put on Twitter that his term in office should just be extended two years because …reasons than I am disturbed there are about 37% of Americans who won’t find this idea even remotely odd.

Dow futures are down 400 points on Trump’s new tariff threats against China. Changed his mind about Mueller testifying, too. You can’t bank on anything he says. It changes every 15 minutes. It’s amazing that anyone in the private sector ever did business with him.

The Dow futures are down considerably. It’s a good thing I made a couple of sales in my shorter term portfolios last week. I may take a look at things tomorrow and possibly make a buy or two in my longer term portfolios.

Now that i see all the reports of Russian air disaster bus class passengers holding up evacuation while coach passengers roasted in the back so they could pull down their carry ons… I begin to understand the affinity with the GOP and their president.

60, Only small problem with any such comparisons is that whatever “loss” president sundowner suffered from the past two years of limp, sagging, impotence, it is all self-imposed.

Never forget, especially going into 2020, that for the last two whole years the GOP under their beloved president pornlube with Speaker Ryan and Leader Yertle by his side, had unfettered complete control over every and all branches and offices of the federal government.

Whatever happened, every investigation so far, all the dozens of disgraced felons frog-marched to prison for conspiring with foreign spies, the Special Counsel, the “dodgy dossier”, the FISA warrants, the hearings, the Grand Juries, the failed legislation, the failed “infrastructure” programs, the failed appointments, ALL OF IT they did entirely to themselves.

Nobody owes them a fucking thing. They took an unprecedented opportunity to advance their political agenda and they squandered all of it on phony real estate scams and Tiki Torch Rallies for Nazis. It’s all on them. They own all of it. Never, ever let them forget that.

You’re the guy who came into the government office with a big chip on your shoulder and screamed, “My taxes pay your salary!!” at the poor clerks because you couldn’t figure out how to fill out a simple form to renew your dog license.

You’re also the guy who showed up at the parking ticket window with the cardboard box full of pennies.

You fucked up and you let yourself get conned. You knew that your racism was wrong and even if it wan’t exactly “wrong” wrong, it was stupid. Still, it burned you to see a talented black dude rise so much higher than you could ever hope, do so incredibly well despite all the obstacles and interference, and then fail to graciously thank your white ass sufficiently for his hard work and success. So you bought into a dumb con and got burned. You went all-in for Tiki Torch rallies and “Trump That Bitch”, and ButteryMales, and “Whitey Tapes”, and MAGA, and CRYSIS ACTORS, and “when you’re a star they let you do it”.

And all you got out of it was a red hat that these days you keep in the top shelf of the guest room closet of your trailer.

Trying to quietly transition back to bitching about “overpaid” teachers isn’t going to work. You thought you’d caught a wave that was going to restore your flabby, liver-spotted white ass to relevance. So you paddled in, stood up tall, and started yelling the “White Power” at the top of your lungs. Now it’s too late to turn out, boy. You’re going to barrel right into the shore break and take the beating you deserve. Get used to it. You’re going to be there for quite a while, stupid.

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